LINGUIST List 7.1508

Sat Oct 26 1996

Calls: Berkeley Ling Society, Congress of the Americas

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

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Regrettably, the previous version of the Call for Papers incorrectly
identified the institution of one of our invited speakers. We
apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
The corrected Call follows.
Sincerely,
Matthew L. Juge
Berkeley Linguistics Society
THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
BLS 23
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its
Twenty-Third Annual Meeting, to be held February 14-17, 1997. The
conference will consist of a Special Session on Friday, followed by a
General Session and a Parasession on Saturday through Monday.
General Session
The main session will cover areas of general linguistic interest.
Invited speakers include:
BERNARD COMRIE, University of Southern California
DAVID McNEILL, University of Chicago
ALAN PRINCE, Rutgers University
Parasession
Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure
The parasession will accept papers bearing on all aspects of the
relationship between pragmatics and grammatical structure, such as how
pragmatics shapes grammar, how grammar constrains pragmatics, what
kinds of regular relationships can be found between pragmatic function
and linguistic form, and how grammar and pragmatics combine to
create/encode meaning.
Invited speakers include:
JOAN BYBEE, University of New Mexico
WALLACE CHAFE, University of California, Santa Barbara
LIVIA POLANYI, Rice University
CHARLOTTE LINDE, Institute for Research on Learning and Stanford
University
Special Session:
Syntax and Semantics in Africa
The Special Session will feature research on the syntax and semantics
of African languages. We invite submissions concerning any African
language or language family from any framework, including formal,
functional, cognitive, sociolinguistic, and historical approaches.
Invited speakers include:
JOAN BRESNAN, Stanford University
HILDA KOOPMAN, University of California, Los Angeles
DORIS PAYNE, University of Oregon
We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome
papers from related disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cognitive
Science, Computer Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology.
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's
Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide
camera-ready copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 1997.
Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for
questions. We ask that you make your abstract as specific as
possible, including a statement of your topic or problem, your
approach, and your conclusions. Please send 10 copies of an anonymous
one-page (8 1/2" x 11", unreduced) abstract. A second page, or
reverse side of the single page, may be used for data and references
only. Along with the abstract send a 3"x 5" card listing:
(1) paper title,
(2) session (general session, parasession, or special session),
(3) for general session abstracts only, subfield, viz., Discourse
Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Philosophy and
Methodology of Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics,
Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, or Syntax,
(4) name(s) of author(s),
(5) affiliation(s) of author(s),
(6) address to which notification of acceptance or rejection should be
mailed (in late December 1996),
(7) author's office and home phone numbers,
(8) author's e-mail address, if available.
An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In
case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for
communication with BLS. Send abstracts to: BLS 23 Abstract Committees,
2337 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2650.
Abstracts for the general session and parasession must be received by
4:00 p.m., November 18, 1996. Special session abstracts must be
received by 4:00 p.m., November 25, 1996. We may be contacted by
e-mail at blsgarnet.berkeley.edu; however, we cannot accept e-mailed
or faxed abstracts. Additional guidelines for abstracts may be
requested by email (blsgarnet.berkeley.edu) or may found at our web
site, http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/research/BLS.html
Registration Fees: Before February 7, 1997; $15 for students, $30 for
non-students;
After February 7, 1997; $20 for students, $35 for non-students.